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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Tonights transit is WASP-10b, got the full data set now, pleased again with this, lines up well with predictions, slighty deeper transit depth at 31ppt instead of 25ppt, but the timing and duration are bob on almost. Imaged from my backyard :) #astronomy #exoplanet

Plot of a transit of an exoplanet in front of its star showing the dip in light

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Something very satisfying watching tha data roll in live of the transit of an Exoplanet in front of its star. This is WASP-10b, a Jupiter sized planet, the transit takes about 2h14m and should be 2.5% in depth. The data is close to the prediction shown by the red lines :) #exoplanet #astronomy

plot showing the light dip of a star due to a planet passing in front of it.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I tried a slightly harder target, this is the transit of Qatar-9b. This is 700 light years away, its star is a Mag 14 K5V about 0.7x the diameter of the Sun. The planet is Jupiter sized and took about 2 hours to transit. The transit depth was only 3% this time. #exoplanet #astronomy

A plot showing the drop in light flux from a Star when a planet transits across its face, in this case it is apporx 3% dip

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Tonight I decided to try something new. I managed to detect Exoplanet TOI 3714b transiting its host star using my 190MN scope and 2600MM camera. Totally blown away that this is possble from my back yard here in the UK. Transit took 1H 38mins and was about 5% in depth 🤯. #Astrophotography #exoplanet

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Had a go processing some of my older narrowband data in Pixinsight of Melotte 15 in the Heart Nebula. I feel this is a better result this time, more finer structure and better stars. This was 18 hours data with Ha, SII and OIII using Atik 383L+ and 190MN #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Its raining again so here is an image from earier this year. M81 and M82 galaxies. 6 Hrs Lum and 2 hrs total R,G,B using 190MN and ZWO 2600MM. 100% crop of each galaxy and the full image rescaled. This is another Pixinsight re-process, still learning but very happy with this :) #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Re-processed my M106 image with Pixinsight, wish I had taken the leap earlier to PI, much improved, although had to crop a portion to avoid poorly calibrated frames. This is a LRGB image, total of 19 hours exposure with 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera, click left image for 100% crop #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Here is my SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, imaged in HaLRGB. Total of 3 hours each R,G,B 3 hours Lum and 3 hours Ha. Imaged with a 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera. This is my first try at using Pixinsight, so far I'm super impressed :) full resized and 100% crop image #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

After an extended summer break from Astrophotography I am back in the saddle and capturing photons again. Amazingly everything fired up first time, although many critters have been evicted. Tonight’s target is SH2-125 The Cocoon Nebula, might take a couple of nights.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

After a decent haul of clear nights here is some new images. This is my NGC 4631 The Whale Galaxy and its buddy NGC 4656 The Hockey Stick Galaxy. With crops of each at full resolution. A total of 10 hours using LRGB filters with my 190MN scope and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #galaxy 🔭

The NGC 4631 Group is a poorly defined group of galaxies, about 25 million light-years from Earth in the Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici constellations.

The NGC 4631 Group is one of many that lie within the Virgo Supercluster

NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 30 million light years away from Earth. It was discovered on 20 March 1787 by German-British astronomer William Herschel. This galaxy's slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the appearance of a herring or a whale, hence its nickname. Because this nearby galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth, professional astronomers observe this galaxy to better understand the gas and stars located outside the plane of the galaxy

NGC 4656/57 is a highly warped edge-on barred spiral galaxy located in the local universe 30 million light years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy is sometimes called the Hockey Stick Galaxy or the Crowbar Galaxy. Its unusual shape is thought to be due to an interaction between NGC 4656, NGC 4631, and NGC 4627

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

With the Moon big and bright I decided to switch to Globluar Clusters, here is my image of M13 The Great Gobular Cluster in Hercules. Several hundred thousand stars, mind blown 🤯. Total of 2 hours Luminance and 1.5 hours each RGB using 190MN and ZWO 2600MM #Astrophotography #space #stars 🔭

A globular cluster, a compact group of over one hundred thousand stars. Located 22,000 light years from Earth.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Not sure if it’s just me but for us UK based astrophotographers this must be the longest continuous streak of clear nights in decades, I think I have had nearly 3 weeks of cloudless skies so far ☺️, it’s so unusual, normally it’s a few a month at best #astrophotography

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Here is Mare Imbrium and craters including Plato, Cassini, Archimedes and others, see the annotated version for more info. This is my image from this last night with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope, best 200 frames from 1000 standard luminance filter. #Astrophotography #thephotohour #space 🔭

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The crater Copernicus, named after Nicholas Copernicus - Polish Astronomer (1473-1543). It is 93km wide and 3.8km deep. This is my image from this last night with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope, best 200 frames from 1000 standard luminance filter. #Astrophotography #thephotohour #space 🔭

The crater Copernicus, a large impact crater on the Moon

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Great shot Rob, really looks like you are in actual orbit around the Moon 👏🏻

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A super Seagull Nebula (IC 2177) by Darren, can be a tough target for our latitude here in UK, need a clear southern horizon.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tonights Moon, 100 frames with 190MN Scope and ZWO 2600MM cam. Some Moony facts - 15.7% Illuminated 3.8 days old Waxing Crescent 360,230km from Earth -6.9 Visual Magnitude 33.2 arcmin Apparent size #astrophotography #moon #luna

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Here is my image of SH2-275 The Rosette Nebula, My FOV at this focal length can't fit it all in, but this is the central region. 2.5 hours each of SII, H-Alpha and OIII imaged with a ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope. Love the dust formations, how many animals can you spot? #Astrophotography #nebula 🔭

The central region of the Rosette Nebula, also known as SH2-275 and contains the open cluster NGC 2244. There is a blue central region comprising of OIII emmisons, there is an interesting collection of darker dust regions atthe bottom known as the Carnival of Animals

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Classic UK weather for todays partial solar eclipse 🌙 , for the rest of the week though it’s wall to wall sunshine, first year I have had access to a solar scope I could use too, gutted.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Been a while due to poor weather, but a couple of nights of clear skies mean more images :) here is my image of M101 The Pinwheel Galaxy. This is 4 hours Lum and 1.5 hours each of R,G and B. Imaged with my 190MN scope and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #space #galaxy🔭

A large spiral galaxy surrounded by thousands of stars. There are faint dust lanes visible in the galaxy.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Finally some clear skies!! here is last nights Waxing Crescent 40% illumininated, 6.4 day old Moon imaged from UK with a 190MN and ZWO 2600MM cam. Hopefully some more clear skies forecast for the weekend 🙂 #astrophotography #Moon #Luna #thephotohour

40 percent illuminated Moon, it is in the waxing crescent phase so is becoming more illuminated each passing day. Lots of craters can be seen, especially along the terminator, the line between night and day on the Moons surface

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A super image of the California Nebula, love the detail and the structure in this image, Darren has done a great job of adding some depth to this fascinating nebula. 👏🏻

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Dust devil on Mars seen from orbit, fascinating stuff 🌪️

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Great shot of the Rosette Nebula by Daydream Astro, really vivid colours. Looks like someone has blown a hole in the sky 💥

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Always like a nebula that actually looks like its name ☺️ great shot here of the Seagull Nebula by Lucky Budd 👏🏻

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is a wonderful image of Sh2 308, make sure you check out the full resolution image, the nebula really stands out from the background. Nicely done Jonathan.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here is my image of the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion B33. SII,Ha,OIII filters with a ZWO 2600MM cam & 190MN scope from my backgarden.Total 11 hrs exposure, 5min subs, different colour palette than normally seen, but I like it. 100% crop of full image #astrophotography #space #thephotohour 🔭🧪

A dark nebula that resembles a horses head which is back lit by a bright blue nebula, there is also a smaller nebula to the bottom left

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Another one of my 135mm Samyang shots, this time of NGC7000 The North America Nebula and IC5070 The Pelican Nebula. A total of 22 hours exposure in 5 min subs using SII, H-alpha and OIII filters. Plate solve below thanks to @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social #astrophotography #space #thephotohour

A bright nebula with a cyan core and dark dust lanes in front. There are thousands of stars in the image

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This is another image from my Samyang 135mm & Atik 383l+. This is the California Nebula Sh2-220. I imaged this with SII, Ha & OIII filters and combined them into RGB in that order. 9 hrs total exposure in 5min subs. The bright star is Menkib, an O7 star ionising gas in the nebula #astrophotography

A brightly coloured nebula having a blue central region which is ionised oxygen, and then gold and red hues caused by ionised Sulphur and Hydrogen. There are many stars in the image, but the brightest one in the middle just above the nebula is Menkib, a massively bright O7 star that puts out immense amounts of radiation resulting in the glowing nebula.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Looking out of the plane of the Milkyway towards Polaris,the bright star in the middle, you can see the Integrated Flux Nebula.This is faint dust and gas illuminated by the Milkyway itself. I imaged this over 30 hours with a Samyang 135mm lens #astrophotography #space #ifn @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

The bright star in the middle is Polaris (The Pole Star), this is surrounded by faint dust, this dust is called the Integrated Flux Nebula and is dust and gas outside the plane of our galaxy which is illuminated not by one star but the total flux of all the stars in the Milkyway

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This is my recent image of M78 in Orion. I have been having issues with my flat frames so had some bad colour blotches so had to reign in the saturation. With some more careful layered processing I might get a better result, but I'm pleased with this for now. #astrophotography #nebula

A relection nebula with a blue hue in the center surrounded by dark dust lanes

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

My image of tonights 90% illuminated Waning Gibbous Moon, there was a some high cloud causing a haze but it seemed to come out ok. Imaged with ZWO 2600MM and 190MN scope. #astrophotography #space #moon #luna

The 90 percent illuminated Waning Gibbous Moon. There are many craters visible and some good contrast at the bottom right near the terminator

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A bit more fun with a wider field, this is the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, I imaged this with a Samyang 135mm F/2 lens and Atik 383l+ camera, total of 4 hours exposure, just luminance filter. Left is the full image, but to appreciate the scale of the image open the 100% crops too 🤯 #astrophotography

In this image there are many many galaxies of varying sizes, the fainter dust that is visible resides within our galaxy along with the stars. Many of the smaller fainter blobs are also galaxies that are 100's of millions of light years away

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When you lookup at the sky its not always obvious how many stars there are, I took this image with a Samyang 35mm lens and 294MC pro camera, 7 hours exposure total from Bortle 4 skies, wow look at those stars 🤯 @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social #astrophotography #space #stars

A wide field view showing millions of stars of different colours, there is also faint nebulosity visible and smaller clusters of stars. There is darker regions of dust spread across the image.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Some interim processing now the cloud are back, here is my B33 - The Horsehead Nebula, a total of 2.5 hours exposure in H-alpha using MN190 scope and ZWO 2600MM camera. 100% crop on the left of the Horsehead and the full frame on the right which includes NGC 2024 the Flame Nebula #astrophotography

A dark nebula that looks like a Horses head

A wider view showing the dark horse head nebula in the center and the flame nebula to the right hand side

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Clear skies mean new images,yay 🙂. Here is my image of M51 The Whirlpool Galaxy, 5 hours R,G,B and 6 hours luminace. This is a 100% crop on the left and full frame on the right, click to zoom in. Imaged with MN190 and ZWO 2600MM from the UK #astrophotography #space #galaxy #thephotohour

A spiral galaxy called M51, there are darker dust lanes visible swirling into the core, there is also another galaxy NGC 5195 that is in the process of merging on the right and is located behind the galaxy from our perspective.

A wider view of the image, there are additional small galaxies visible in the image

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Had a quick wider field of view of Jupiter last night and captured the gas gaint along with its 4 Galilean Moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Captured R,G,B using MN190 and ZWO 2600MM camera with about 50 frames per channel. Stacked in AS4 and processed in Registax and PS. #astrophotography

Jupiter can be seen on the right with its four main moons labelled, on the far left is Callisto, to the left of Jupiter you have Europa and then Io slightly above and closest and on the far right you have Ganymede.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Occasionally when imaging you stumble across something unexpected. I was focussing on Mu Orionis, however there looked like a lens flare right next to it, but to my surprise it was actually Abell 12 The Hidden Planetary Nebula, its tiny, but wondeful to find by accident 😄 #astrophotography

A bright mag 4 star Mu Orionis is located in the center, just off to the bottom right is the planetary nebula Abell 12 The Hidden Planetary Nebula, this is just 37 arc seconds across.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My image of tonights 80 percent illuminated Waxing Gibbous 10.5 day old Moon. 50 frames of L,R,G,B with the colour enhanced a little. Imaged with 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #space #luna #moon

The 10.5 day old Moon in its Waxing Gibbous phase, tere is subtle colour variations between the Mare and the uplands and the crater ejecta

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My image of tonights 60 percent illuminated Waxing Gibbous Moon. 50 frames of L,R,G,B with the colour enhanced. Imaged with 190MN and ZWO 2600MM camera. #astrophotography #space #luna #moon

A detailed picture of the Moon 60 percent illuminated in in waxing gibbous phase. The colour of the regolith has been enhanced so there is some subtle colour variations not normally seen.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Ever wondered what the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope is currently viewing right now, or previously/planned to view and why? check out this link spacetelescopelive.org #space

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Space Telescope Live

Explore official, up-to-date information on current, past, and upcoming investigations by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I imaged the Galaxy Cluster Abell 2151. located 500 million light years away. Tough target but pleased I managed to get some detail, imagine how many potential civilisations may be living in that one picture of 200 galaxies 🤯 imaged with 190MN and Atik 383L+ camera from UK #astrophotography #space

Lots of faint galaxies surround by stars which are local to our galaxy. This cluster is ocated 500 million light years away and comprioses of over 200 galaxies. The galaxies are of different shapes and sizes, some can be seen colliding.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

If you point your camera at Polaris (the North Star) and turn off mount tracking and take a long exposure you get this. I enhanced the colours and contrast to make it stand out. The bright arc near the center is Polaris #astrophotography

Star trails around the North Star Polaris. The effect is due to the earths rotation, the northern axis of rotation is centred very near the star Polaris. The trails show the colours of the stars. The brightest arc near the middle is Polaris.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

My astrophotography in 2024, not a great year even for UK skies, lots of unfinished projects due to the weather, but I got to explore some solar imaging,imaged some new targets and joined the fantastic bluesky community, every cloud as they say 🙂 image names in alt #astrophotography #newyear #space

A collage of images I have taken durng 2024, top left is SH2-224 the Rice Hat Nebula, top middle is a Solar Prominence, top right is M81 and M82 with the IFN, middle left is Jupiter, middle is M33, middle right is NGC 6992 Eatern Veil Nebula, bottom left is NGC 7000 The North America Nebula, bottom middle is the Half Moon, bottom right is another Solar prominence. I hope you all have a great 2025 and clear skies

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I took an image of this active region on the Sun in April using a Ha modded Tal 100RS. Really brings home the fact that the Sun is a broiling mass of plasma, an utterly hostile environment, yet just 8 light minutes away it was a lovely pleasant day here on earth ☀️🌍 #astrophotography #sun #space

The surface of the Sun imaged in Hydrogen Alpha, there is fine structure visible around the active region which contains dark spots . This is where the magnetic field penetrates the suns surface cooling the plasma slightly. There are also darks wispy areas which are filaments extending away from the surface. The surface temperature is about 5000 degrees C

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

This is my image of SH2-101 the Tulip Nebula, 6,000 light years away, imaged with Atik 383L+ and 190MN over 3 nights, 12 hours total exposure. A really colourful nebula that works well as a narrowband target #astrophotography #space #nebula

A colourful nebula with a cyan blue centre and red yellow outer, surrounded by thousands of stars. That are darker filaments in the foreground and the whole nebula resembles a tulip.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Another image I took of the Moon, this is Mare Crisium with Picard Crater middle right. #astrophotography #moon #luna #crater

A detailed picture of the Moons surface with a large mare in the middle surrounded by smaller craters.

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Here is my image of Rima Hyginus, with Hyginus crater halfway along it (thats 11km wide and 800 m deep for scale). On the right is Rimae Triesnecker with the crater Triesnecker which is 25km wide. Taken with 190MN scope and 290MM cam #astrophotography #astrophoto #luna #moon

A close up of the moon showing features such as craters, highlands and faults

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Keith Bramley @keefbram.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

If you like space and you like brains here is the perfect nebula for you, the Space Brain Nebula 🧠, unfortunately they called it NGC 6888 The Cresecent Nebula instead which is less fun, but there you go. This is my image of it using Ha and OIII filters, 19 hrs exposure #astrophotography #space

A colourful nebula with fine structure in blue and orange, there is a faint blue outer shell with a more dense inner orange shell. There are thousands of stars in the background. Many people say this looks like a brain, I think I agree.

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